Secret Code (UG)
This famous linguist is the primary figure associated with the theories in Poole’s first chapter.
Noam Chomsky
This is the specific branch of linguistics that studies how words are put together to form sentences.
Syntax
If a rule works for English but fails in Japanese, a linguist must revise it to find this—a rule that fits both. What is it called?
Generalization
This is the acronym for the "biological toolkit" every human child is born with for language.
(UG) Universal Grammar.
Poole describes this as the internal "knowledge" a speaker has, rather than how they actually speak in public.
Competence
Linguists don't care about "slang" being bad, they only care about this type of "Natural" grammar.
Descriptive Grammar
Poole argues that language is "Innate," which is a fancy way of saying humans are born with this. What is it?
Language Ability
How is it called?
when you accidentally trip over your words or stutter, but it is a slip not a lack of knowledge.
Performance
This is a "testable guess" about a rule of grammar that a linguist tries to prove or disprove.
Hypothesis
These are the "on/off" switches in the brain that determine if your language is "Subject-Verb" or "Verb-Subject."
Parameters
This "Faculty"is the part of the human mind responsible for processing and producing language.
Faculty of Language.
In syntax, we use these "Intuitions" from native speakers as our primary source of scientific data.
Grammaticality Judgments
This "Argument"claims kids learn language too fast for it to be based just on what their parents say.
Poverty of the Stimulus
True or False: According to syntactic theory, a "Grammar" is a set of rules used to limit what you can say.
False, (It is a generative system to create).
If a sentence sounds "wrong" to a native speaker, linguists say the sentence is this.
Ungrammatical
This term describes a system that can create an infinite number of results from a finite set of rules.
Generative system